Networks Need a Reality Check

A firsthand account of liberal bias at CBS News.

By

Bernard Goldberg

Updated Jan. 2, 2002 11:59 p.m. ET

(Editor's note: This article originally appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Feb. 13, 1996. You can order Mr. Goldberg's book, "Bias: A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distort the News," from the OpinionJournal bookstore.)

There are lots of reasons fewer people are watching network news, and one of them, I'm more convinced than ever, is that our viewers simply don't trust us. And for good reason.